Bürgerbot: Refreshes the Berlin Bürgeramt page until an appointment becomes available, then notifies you.

buergerbot.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'watir-webdriver'

def log (message) puts "  #{message}" end
def success (message) puts "+ #{message}" end
def fail (message) puts "- #{message}" end
def notify (message)
  success message.upcase
  system 'osascript -e \'Display notification "Bürgerbot" with title "%s"\'' % message
rescue StandardError => e
end

def appointmentAvailable? (b)
  url = 'http://service.berlin.de/terminvereinbarung/termin/tag.php?termin=1&dienstleister%5B%5D=122210&dienstleister%5B%5D=122217&dienstleister%5B%5D=122219&dienstleister%5B%5D=122227&dienstleister%5B%5D=122231&dienstleister%5B%5D=122238&dienstleister%5B%5D=122243&dienstleister%5B%5D=122252&dienstleister%5B%5D=122260&dienstleister%5B%5D=122262&dienstleister%5B%5D=122254&dienstleister%5B%5D=122271&dienstleister%5B%5D=122273&dienstleister%5B%5D=122277&dienstleister%5B%5D=122280&dienstleister%5B%5D=122282&dienstleister%5B%5D=122284&dienstleister%5B%5D=122291&dienstleister%5B%5D=122285&dienstleister%5B%5D=122286&dienstleister%5B%5D=122296&dienstleister%5B%5D=150230&dienstleister%5B%5D=122301&dienstleister%5B%5D=122297&dienstleister%5B%5D=122294&dienstleister%5B%5D=122312&dienstleister%5B%5D=122314&dienstleister%5B%5D=122304&dienstleister%5B%5D=122311&dienstleister%5B%5D=122309&dienstleister%5B%5D=317869&dienstleister%5B%5D=324433&dienstleister%5B%5D=325341&dienstleister%5B%5D=324434&dienstleister%5B%5D=324435&dienstleister%5B%5D=122281&dienstleister%5B%5D=324414&dienstleister%5B%5D=122283&dienstleister%5B%5D=122279&dienstleister%5B%5D=122276&dienstleister%5B%5D=122274&dienstleister%5B%5D=122267&dienstleister%5B%5D=122246&dienstleister%5B%5D=122251&dienstleister%5B%5D=122257&dienstleister%5B%5D=122208&dienstleister%5B%5D=122226&anliegen%5B%5D=120686&herkunft=%2Fterminvereinbarung%2F'
  puts '-'*80
  log 'Trying again'
  b.goto url
  log 'Page loaded'
  link = b.element css: '.calendar-month-table:first-child td.buchbar a'
  if link.exists?
    link.click
    notify 'An appointment is available.'
    log 'Enter y to keep searching or anything else to quit.'
    return gets.chomp.downcase != 'y'
  else
    fail 'No luck this time.'
    return false
  end
rescue StandardError => e
  fail 'Error encountered.'
  puts e.inspect
  return false
end

b = Watir::Browser.new
until appointmentAvailable? b
  log 'Sleeping.'
  sleep 30
end

brilliant idea however when i try to execute it I git the following error

ruby ~/Programs/buergerbot.rb
/home/gaksakalli/Programs/buergerbot.rb:9: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/home/gaksakalli/Programs/buergerbot.rb:9: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/home/gaksakalli/Programs/buergerbot.rb:9: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting keyword_end
... -e 'Display notification "Bürgerbot" with title "%s"'' %...
... ^

My ruby version

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p484 (2013-11-22 revision 43786) [x86_64-linux]

What I am missing, in btw. I have no experience with ruby.

I made some refactoring and its working now, you can find it here: https://gist.github.com/tokhi/5ea4c6c2d04ad0f0035c

I did a very hacky edit to support notifying the user via Telegram: https://gist.github.com/xuio/297e16b84d700314241393e8f3aa42f3

maybe it is useful to someone

Oh wow, this thing still exists! I now live in a magical place where most admin stuff can be done online, but I’m happy (and shocked) to see that this is still useful to people.

Still useful :), thanks.

Thanks! Still useful. For Linux users: use notify instead of the applescript notifications:
require 'notify' and Notify.notify 'Burgerbot', message instead of system 'osascript -e \'Display notification Burgerbot with title "%s"\'' % message

confirmed this works! just watch out to not get rate limited <60 seconds wait time.

It works. It took me around 1 hour to find one to two appointments (I searched Berlin-wide).
Sehr geil, danke!

Thanks a lot for the script, still really useful! I adapted it a bit to send me a telegram notification as well on success 🤓

Amazing! @MKyhos can you share more details how you connected it to Telegram?

Moreover, is there a way to bypass the CAPTCHA?

NB: I found this fork which uses Telegram. Didn't try it yet.

does anyone know if there is a bot like this for the auslanderbehörde?

does anyone know if there is a bot like this for the auslanderbehörde?

did you find anyhing?

No :(

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I’m afraid I can’t really offer any advice, only sympathy for having to deal with the Ausländeramt. 😣

Some of the services seem to have changed. For example Reisepass beantragen is now 121151 instead of 120703.
120703 is now Personalausweis beantragen.
Would be great if someone could update the telegram bot!
Thanks

does anyone know if there is a bot like this for the auslanderbehörde?

Hey I'm using this it's working fine besides that is very difficult even for the bot, but at least can work without stop.
Just need to make some changes on selenium to choose your options, I used the Selenium IDE chrome extension to find the right objects.

https://github.com/capital-G/berlin-auslanderbehorde-termin-bot

Hi guys there are alot of non IT people like me outside and we have do not understand all these codes and people earning money selling appointments on Telegram. Could someone please explain the steps for those beginner/dummies level? What should we install and where to click? I will thank then.